Is the use of the Social Media just hype and fad, or is it changing the way people communicate and do business?
Eric Qualmann from Socialnomics has produced a great video documenting the impact of social media, through a wide variety of current statistics. These include:
Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months
If Facebook was a country, it would be the world’s 4th largest
80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees
80% of Twitter usage is via mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world
There are over 200.000.000 Blogs. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.
